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How do you manage an invasive species of fish that in only a few decades has spread up and down the Mississippi River, out-competing native species and becoming more than 90 percent of the total biomass of some river systems?
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For the brain to learn, retain memories, process sensory information, and coordinate body movements, its groups of nerve cells must generate coordinated electrical signals.
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A small group of biology students at James Madison University began combing through data during the fall semester, looking for potential experiments to run in future semesters to kick off a four-year research program backed by $1 million from the National Science Foundation.
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The dairy industry in the United States contributes approximately 1.58 percent of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions.
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As an undergraduate studying chemical engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans, near the heart of oil country, Jennifer Munson modeled how fluids move through pipes.
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Only 0.78% of Google searchers click on something that appears on the second page. But, this shouldn’t be coming as a surprise at this point. After all, how often do you get past the first few search results?
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The Virginia Center for Housing Research is helping pilot two initiatives to determine whether 3D-printed concrete homes and manufactured factory-built housing are viable answers to the housing affordability crisis in Virginia and across the nation.
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University of Virginia President Jim Ryan this week announced more than $30 million in new investments supporting both UVA’s research enterprise and its Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies.
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Flaviviruses — a group of viruses transmitted by ticks or mosquitoes — infect an estimated 400 million people annually with diseases like yellow fever, Dengue fever, West Nile virus, and, most recently, Zika virus.
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JMU psychology professors Ben Blankenship and Jaime Kurtz say there are a number of strategies to help make 2021 a positive year.
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